Now that pretty much everyone is working from home, one of the reoccurring complaints that I’ve seen prop up at the digital iGaming conferences of the past two weeks has been about managing a proper work life balance. When your home is your office, and everyone is receiving notifications on their laptop and phones, it can be difficult to unplug and leave work to be done the next day.

For many people, this isn’t a new problem, but they may not want to admit it. We’ve all worked with the colleague who stays at the office late because they want to finish something, or because they allegedly have nothing better to do. Others send email at odd hours and can’t stop checking their phone, for fear that if they aren’t on top of their inbox, something might sit a little too long.

A handful of panels at the iGaming Next Online conference have had me thinking about this topic quite a bit. Thanks to the mental health talk offered by Dragan Donkov, the increasing productivity talk offered by Karolina Pelc, and the Human Resources panel led by Pierre Lindh, it’s refreshed my memories of just how much the iGaming industry needs to adjust their work-life balance, and how they might do it through small steps.

Finding the right balance between work and life is no trivial matter. If you can’t manage to tame the responsibilities of the office, there’s a real risk of burning out. If you get to that point, you’ll be less productive, less motivated, and suffer in all areas of life. So now that our home and office has become a combined space, it’s imperative that you find the right balance, and be a better person and employee by the time you have to return to the office.